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India's First Dictatorship: The Emergency, 1975-77 CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT AND PRATINAV ANIL, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 600 PP., S49.95, APRIL 2021 For 21 months between 1975 and 1977, then-Indian Prime Minister Indira [...]

India has emerged as a central partner in U.S. efforts to balance rising Chinese power. To this end, the United States has invested heavily in India, brokering an agreement to [...]

Nationalism has become a formidable force in India, the world's most populous democracy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, or Indian People's Party) portrays India as a once-glorious [...]

In a speech to Mumbai college students in November 2010, while on a state visit to India, U.S. President Barack Obama declared, 'The United States does not just believe, as [...]

India and Russia have enjoyed a strong relationship since the collapse of the Soviet Union, partially as a legacy of the Indo–Soviet partnership during the Cold War. But how will this invasion impact future relations between New Delhi and Moscow? We argue that the war will likely harm this relationship over the long term, although some scenarios might minimize this harm. Western sanctions and Russian material losses in the war will make it difficult for Russia to fulfill Indian arms orders, especially if the sanctions regime remains in place for several years, forcing India to turn to other sources of weapons, including the United States. Its increasing isolation from Europe could also force Russia to move even closer to India’s rival China, making India less secure. There may be opportunities to improve energy ties between India and Russia, but Western sanctions and geographic barriers will limit any energy gains.

To THE EDITOR: Sadanand Dhume has done an excellent job updating the status of the often complex relationship between India and the U.S, and he gives reason to believe that [...]

As the United States has prosecuted its war against the Taliban, worked to destroy al Qaeda's network and assets, and tried to get its hands on Osama bin Laden, the [...]

What ails Pakistan? Why, throughout its 52 years, has it experienced nearly constant political instability? Pakistan has already suffered four military coups, the most recent of which startled the world [...]

My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the American Withdrawal By Avinash Paliwal Though not widely known, India is currently the fifth largest aid donor to [...]

Ever since 9/11, the United States has provided Pakistan with a steady supply of security and nonsecurity assistance. U.S. officials have justified these generous transfers--worth more than $30 billion since [...]

Two sets of complexes of Co–triarylcorrole–bispyridine complexes, Co[TpXPC](py)2and Co[Br8TpXPC](py)2have been synthesized, where TpXPC refers to a meso-tris(para-X-phenyl)corrole ligand with X = CF3, H, Me, and OMe and Br8TpXPC to the corresponding β-octabrominated ligand. The axial pyridines in these complexes were found to be labile and, in dilute solutions in dichloromethane, the complexes dissociate almost completely to the five-coordinate monopyridine complexes. Upon addition of a small quantity of pyridine, the complexes revert back to the six-coordinate forms. These transformations are accompanied by dramatic changes in color and optical spectra. 1H NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography have confirmed that the bispyridine complexes are authentic low-spin Co(III) species. Strong substituent effects on the Soret maxima and broken-symmetry DFT calculations, however, indicate a CoII–corrole•2–formulation for the five-coordinate Co[TpXPC](py) series. The calculations implicate a Co(dz2)–corrole(“a2u”) orbital interaction as responsible for the metal–ligand antiferromagnetic coupling that leads to the open-shell singlet ground state of these species. Furthermore, the calculations predict two low-energy S= 1 intermediate-spin Co(III) states, a scenario that we have been able to experimentally corroborate with temperature-dependent EPR studies. Our findings add to the growing body of evidence for noninnocent electronic structures among first-row transition metal corrole derivatives.

Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb. By Strobe Talbott. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2004. 268 pages. $27.95. Reviewed by Dr. Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science and Director, India [...]

Review For 21 months between 1975 and 1977, then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a nationwide state of emergency, all but suspending civil rights and liberties. The Gandhi government's draconian family planning policies, designed to curb India's rampant population growth, also weren't a success. In states where Gandhi's Congress party either didn't hold power or was organizationally weak, the government's harsh policies were somewhat mitigated. [Extracted from the article]

India is furthering its foreign policy goals through foreign aid, competing against China in terms of amounts and strategy, while presenting an alternative democratic perspective to recipient countries, write Rani [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly Why India is asking too much of the U.S. President Obama's first state visit to India looms large on the horizon. Since he took office in 2009, [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly In the run-up to President Obama's November state visit to India, officials in New Delhi are fretting that their relationship with Washington has frozen over. Maybe it [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly Its Army is fighting against peace. Yet another attempt to defuse tensions between India and Pakistan came to a screeching halt in mid-July in Islamabad. At a [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly India is annoyed by Obama. Barack Obama is in danger of reversing all the progress his predecessors, including George W. Bush, made in forging closer U.S. ties [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly Barack Obama is in danger of reversing all the progress his predecessors made in forging closer ties with the world's largest democracy, India. Through increased trade, military [...]

A shift on India's nuclear policy. It was a bombshell by any measure. Since it was signed 40 years ago, Indian leaders have been firmly against joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation […]

Byline: David P. Fidler and Sumit Ganguly It was an explosive announcement. Since it was signed 40 years ago, Indian leaders have been firmly against joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty […]

Preventing another terrorist attack. for four days last November, 10 heavily armed young men affiliated with the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, wreaked havoc across Mumbai, leaving some 160 people dead, [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly For four days last November, 10 Pakistan-based terrorists wreaked havoc across Mumbai, leaving some 160 people dead. The brutality of the attacks caused understandable outrage, yet unlike [...]

Washington must stick by Islamabad. President Obama is on the verge of signing legislation that would grant $7.5 billion in new aid to Pakistan over the next five years, most [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly Since India's congress party celebrated its huge election victory on May 16, pundits have predicted that relations between D.C. and a newly empowered Delhi would grow cozier. [...]

Since the Congress Party's huge win in India's elections was announced on May 16, pundits across the country and in the United States have predicted that the warming relations between [...]

Rather than serve as a bulwark against chaos, the Army has helped destabilize Pakistan. For far too long, the myth that Pakistan's army is the only thing holding the country [...]

New Delhi suffers from bad PR and weak institutions. But just expressing more regret is not going to cut it. Last week's tragedy in Mumbai may have finally focused world [...]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly FOR MUCH OF HIS TENURE, PAKISTAN'S PRESIDENT, GEN. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, HAD TWO claims to fame: that he'd put the country on the path to moderation by marginalizing [...]

Pakistan's current woes are part of a long tradition, a legacy of instability that predates the nation's founding. This week brought more bad news from Pakistan, as the country's president, […]

Byline: Sumit Ganguly (Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington and the author of the forthcoming book 'India Since 1980.') Suddenly, India is on [...]

BREAKING AWAY Over the past several years, India's economic growth, diplomatic influence, and overall prestige have increased sharply. The country's new international profile adds a fresh dimension to its ongoing [...]